Features, bug fixes, and more.

• User experience
• Made it so you can click photos directly from the home page
• Made it so you can click a photo to see the next in the series, ad infinitum
• We added in a widget on NFL team pages in partnership with Fanatics that allows you to get the best team merchandise, like, oh, say, a Tebow jersey
• Added in a widget for new users coming from Twitter and Facebook to better explain the interface
• Created a press room with mentions of FanFeedr in the news

• API
• We remedied having multiple representation of the same team for NCAA events
• Fixed the NFL next game query
• Fixed a bug that made events/last results inaccurate
• Deleted an events “geo” call that existed in the documentation, but, unfortunately, not in real life
• Amended calls for home/away teams, which were occasionally getting transposed
• Made it so that the player’s name was linked to his player ID in boxscores

As always, thank you for your support, FanFeedr

FanFeedr News is currently looking for talented sports columnists with WordPress experience to cover teams across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, Soccer, College Hoops & Football.  FanFeedr News has a columnist incentive program in place which will pay you for your great content! After a 30-day trial period, you can earn upwards to $20 per post if you meet the traffic generation requirements.

Sounds good doesn’t it? What are you waiting for?

We are looking to hit the ground running in 2012, so contact us today. Please email Sports Editor, Joe Gill at joe@fanfeedr.com for further information.

We looking forward to you joining our team!

About FanFeedr

FanFeedr is the best source of sports news and information about your favorite professional and college sports teams.

We offer over 400 distinct, team-specific sites and social media accounts dedicated to providing the most timely and relevant news, photos, video, and sports data about the NFL, Premier League, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA Football and Basketball, and MLS. Our content is curated from over 10,000 global websites, newspapers, blogs, official team sites, and Twitter accounts.

Founded in 2008, the company is funded by private investors.

Folks,

This week’s release has several significant fixes.

• Added in a direct link to FanFeedr Hot Takes in the main navigation. Please check it out for super-timely insights into what people are talking about in sports.
• Support for Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9
• Fixes for Firefox to see the entire stories

• RSS feeds: get your favorite team news directly in your favorite news readers, like Google Reader, Flipboard, or My Yaho0!
• New York  Jets
• New England Patriots
• FC Barcelona
• Arsenal
• New York Yankees
• Boston Red Sox, for example

The new FanFeedr News A sports blog launched earlier this month. What will differentiate version 2.0 from it’s predecessor, Standing Room Only, is the in-depth sports coverage and robust news content aggregated from FanFeedr.com.  Our staff brings you all of the hot topics and stories from around professional Soccer, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NCAA.

If  its newsworthy, you will find it here.

FanFeedr Sports Editor, Joe Gill brings you all the NFL action you could possibly want. He will have weekly previews of all the NFL match-ups. Each report will bring you the Best of the Best previews from around the Web. Want hot takes of your favorite team prior to the game? It’s all here.

When the games conclude, Joe brings you the best recaps, game MVPs, hot takes and video highlights from around the NFL. This is your one stop for post-game coverage.

Our weekly feature for all the NFL and Fantasy Football junkies, the NFL All-FanFeedr Team, brings you all the studs that were instrumental in their team’s victory. If you fielded this roster, you would have won your fantasy league by a landslide.

As we all know, NFL fans have an insatiable appetite for news, so time to strap on the NFL Feed Bag. The Feed Bag highlights the fantastic finishes, best touchdowns, marquee games, studs and duds of the week in the National Football League.  After feasting on all of this NFL content, there will be no room for seconds.

Check out the all new FanFeedr News today! You won’t be disappointed.

Cheers,

Joe Gill. Sports Editor, FanFeedr

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to the team, Joe Gill.

Joe graduated from UMass-Lowell with a degree in marketing. He has 16 years of experience in event planning, marketing communications, writing and social media. Before joining us, Joe was the site director/writer for popular Boston sports site, Boston Sports Then and Now. He is also the creator of Boston Sports Blogapalooza, the networking event where social media and Beantown sports collide.

As Sports Editor for FanFeedr, Joe will be covering the NFL and NHL. He will also build a staff of team editors who will generate informative content across all sports. With his strength in event planning, Joe will lead the development of FanFeedr Fest coming early 2012.

Thanks, FanFeedr

Improvements

• You can watch all of the March Madness games directly from our NCAA Basketball scoreboards

Mobile hotness

• We relaunched our FanFeedr iPhone and iPad application to get rid of the login loop that was driving some of you crazy
• We also relaunched our Redskins Feedr application for you dedicated Redskins fans
• Made the application more stable
• Added in other bug fixes

Bug fixes

• We fixed a login issue in our Chrome application for Facebook
• Fixed an issue whereby scores were being replicated multiple times via the API
• Fixed the way that photo embeds from FanFeedr into Facebook display (they work now)
• Inline commenting on the home page was fixed
• Fixed “Hotness” on the site that so that it works immediately for new items on the site
• Fixed a bug whereby our Chrome app displaying the same favicon for all sources.

Cool? Cool.

We had several updates for you, primarily in the realm of getting bigger boxes for everything from game recap, boxscore and photo processing, to updating our database servers to make them distributed.

The detailed breakdown.

Epic

• Our NCAA basketball scoreboard page occasionally was overwhelmed when some 150 took place on a single day. We refactored that page to make it more robust and stable.
• Gaming was moved over to our message-queue so that your game results will arrive in a more timely fashion on both Facebook and on FanFeedr.com
• We added in MLB and College Basketball into Facebook Pick’Em, just in time for March Madness

Bugs

• Removed tweets from the Chrome application
• Gaming updates sent via email now have the up-to-date player rank
• Amended photo publishing to Facebook and Twitter to provide more value by actually publishing photos

That’s it. The current sprint is all about bug fixes, so we will have more for you next week.

Thanks, as always, FanFeedr

Gaming

• Relaunch of FanFeedr Pick’Em on Facebook
• Better badges
• Faster response time
• Revamped User Experience
• If you . . .
  • like to show off, and
  • have a mild inclination for betting,
  • then this game is for you

FanFeedr Chrome Application

• The Chrome App store launched on Feb. 1st
• We made several changes to improve your user experience, based on your feedback
  • Box scores open directly in the interface
  • Photos open directly in the interface
  • Recaps open directly in the interface
  • Made it easier to get to your fanned items

Twitter

• We put tighter restrictions on what gets published to Twitter so that you get more value, less noise, for each of the team and player accounts.

Celery

• More than just a good source of fiber
• It is a “Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.”
• Allows for a more stable FanFeedr so that you will see even better uptime

Minor bugs

• We had both “Yahoo” and “Yahoo Sports” listed. There is now just “Yahoo Sports.”

Thanks again, and we hope you try out the new stuff, FanFeedr

First the really good news: we hit over 160,000 Twitter followers across our accounts last month. Yay for us!

For the following site upgrades, most are technology fixes and upgrades, so you are duly forewarned.

• We paginated our Leaderboard, so the pages loads faster and you can do a deeper dive on your favorite sports
• We are now aggregating all of the player and team tweets from Major League Soccer, as you can see here via our list of MLS Tweets
• Fixed a weird glitch with SIU Edwardsville Cougars’s basketball schedule, because we were besieged with requests and prioritized it
• We added monitoring to all of our server processes to ensure better uptime
• We upgraded SQL Alchemy and Mako to versions 0.6.5 and 0.3.6 respectively
• We are publishing some additional material directly out of Solr
• We upgraded and fixed a number of FanFeedr API calls, which are noted in detail on the developer portal

More good stuff in the pipeline, and thank you, as always for using the service.

Thanks, FanFeedr